Evolvepreneur® Podcast Show

My very special guest today is Mario Bekes, who is the Managing Director of Insight Intelligence Group Mario Bekes, ex-military and diplomatic security-intelligence services specialist and now best-selling author. He experienced continuous 1800 combat days, from life in communism and fight for democracy, ambassador and activists for humanity. Mario’s goal is to show you how to conduct a successful investigation in the workplace.

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Show, where we talk to experienced entrepreneurs to get some great ideas about how you can grow your business. My very special guest today is Daniel Tolson. Daniel Tolson is a successful business coach and is regarded as Asia’s #1 business coach specializing in Emotional Intelligence and a former Australian Champion Athlete. He co-leads a team of more than 17,000 Cabin Crew and currently serves as a consultant to more than 17,500 business people globally. With more than 6,500 case studies into the science of Emotional Intelligence, he is considered as one of the worlds' leading business coaches specializing in emotional intelligence. He shows people how to become successful by providing scientific and evidence-based methods on how to catapult your influence, accelerate your impact and unleash new income levels.

Robbie Samuels is an author, speaker, and business growth strategy coach recognized as a networking expert by Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Lifehacker, and Inc. He is also a virtual event design consultant and executive Zoom producer recognized as an industry expert in the field of digital event design by JDC Events. Robbie is the author of "Croissants vs. Bagels: Strategic, Effective, and Inclusive Networking at Conferences" and "Small List, Big Results: Launch a Successful Offer No Matter the Size of Your Email List." He is a Harvard Business Review contributor. His clients include thought leaders, entrepreneurial women, associations, national, and statewide advocacy organizations, women’s leadership summits, including Feeding America, California WIC Association, and AmeriCorps. Robbie is the host of the On the Schmooze podcast and #NoMoreBadZoom Virtual Happy Hours.

The importance of telling your own story in order to safeguard your business legacy. The best way to do that is through your book. Helen has had a long, eclectic career that spanned the worlds of big business, small business, professional practices and non-profits. She has started several businesses of her own — some that did rather well and others best forgotten. The most professionally and personally fulfilling time of her life began in the early nineties when she accidentally found the world of professional speaking, where she specialized in communication at work.

A qualified personal trainer and life coach with a Bachelor of Commerce, Scott Capelin comes to you having owned nine successful businesses over a 16-year period, with extensive business mentoring experience and over 20 years working with clients in the fitness industry and wellness arena. By his own admission, however, Scott has also had his fair share of disappointment – losing one business, his livelihood and his family home while his wife was pregnant with their third child. Never one to give up, he worked to gain it all back, and more, within two years. Seeing his role as helping others achieve a healthy, happy lifestyle through balancing family, fitness and finances, Scott Capelin is passionate about providing advice and encouragement as someone who has 'been there and done that!'

Nick is the Co-Founder and MD of one of Asia's premier networking organizations called "Executives' Global Network". He built a caring community that provides hundreds of executives a safe haven to share their challenges, and receive support and learn from each other. Nick is also a #1 Best Selling Author of "Executive Loneliness". Executive loneliness is an incredibly serious condition and, in some cases, fatal, as Nick explains in this book.

Taylor is a Marine Corps veteran, holistic lifestyle specialist, podcast host, and founder of The Captain's Lifestyle. He helps social entrepreneurs maximize their health, happiness, and productivity so they can grow their impact, optimize their work-life balance, and fulfil their entrepreneurial vision. Lifestyle optimization for entrepreneurs. Requirements of peak performance. The future of business.

Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

Jan is an entrepreneur from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her. She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million turnover business. Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with her passion for writing together a book aimed at helping entrepreneurs to grow their businesses during the big leap of 1-10m. The book is called Scale for Success and it now out in the UK from Bloomsbury in hardback and kindle, with early July publication in the US and Australia hardback versions

Joe DiChiara is an entrepreneur with a CPA license. He has worked with thousands of business owners over a 35 year career providing simple bookkeeping through complex IRS tax audits.It troubled him that most new businesses fail and was determined to find out why. In 2010, after reading “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace Wattles and “Law of Success” by Napoleon Hill he got his answer. Success starts with Mindset, a subject they don’t teach in CPA school. He learned that this was the true culprit on top of an overly complex system making it nearly impossible to succeed in business. Joe’s primary purpose is to teach the fundamental principles of success combined with the practical knowledge acquired as a CPA. By providing business coaching combined with affordable accounting and tax services he is helping stem the tide of new business failures.

Jarie is an engineering by training and an entrepreneur by nature with 25 years of bringing an entrepreneur. He has formed or been part of 6 startups in various management roles. His latest company is a PR & Marketing firm that helps IoT/Smart Home/Consumer Medical Device companies tell better stories. He is an author and his latest book is The Entrepreneur Ethos, which is also now a podcast of the same name.

Dr Bruno Roque Cignacco (PhD) is an international business consultant, international speaker and business coach. For over 20 years, he has advised and trained hundreds of companies on international trade activities and international marketing. He is a university lecturer. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA - UK). He is also the author of business and personal development books published in different languages. His new book is titled "The Art of Compassionate Business".

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Sarah St John is an entrepreneur, podcaster, online course creator, and author. She has created several startups throughout her entrepreneurial career of over a decade. She currently owns a podcast production agency called PodSeam. She is also the podcast host of “Frugalpreneur: Building a Business on a Bootstrapped Budget” which aims to show people how to launch and manage an online business on a budget. #evolvepreneur #evolvepreneurpodcast #johnnorth

Geoffrey Klein is a Tedx Speaker, Adjunct Professor, Content Producer. Passionate about helping people communicate more effectively through the power of story and visual communication. Geoffrey’s career over the last 25 years has been about helping connect the right message to the right audience for the greatest impact. His experience spans from being legally trained to working for Seth Godin to working on major motion pictures at Paramount Pictures and MGM Studios. Geoffrey has presented at Tedx LehighRiver, has guest lectured at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), Drexel University, Hussian College and Temple University. As well, he has presented programs on The Science of Story at WeWork, CareersPHL, Intelligent Office, City-Coho, and the Small Business Expo. In addition to running a content marketing agency, Geoffrey is an adjunct professor at Temple University’s School Of Media And Communication.

Shane and Jocelyn Sams, hosts of the Flipped Lifestyle Podcast. They are former school teachers who had a negative experience at work, which turned into a catalyst for us starting our own business back in 2012 and becoming totally self-employed in 2013. Their business mission is to help family-focused people start and grow successful online membership (recurring revenue) websites. They want to spread this message to as many people as possible so they can spend more time with their families like we are now able to do since they have "flipped our lives."

Welcome to the Evolvepreneur Podcast Channel. My very special guest today is Davide Vigano. Davide is a former Microsoft partner level executive with over 25 years of sales, marketing and extensive product management experience. As an intern he started the international localization group for MacWorks and MacOffice in 1987. More recently, he served as General Manager of the Health Solutions Group where he was in charge of marketing and product strategy for both HealthVault and the Amalga product line. He acted as Vice President of the Worldwide SMSP Medium Business division which he grew 18% YOY to over $14B. Davide also managed the Italian Marketing, Business and Enterprise operations for five years and brought it to number one in the world for contribution margin, 6th largest Microsoft subsidiary in the world by revenues.

Mike Rhodes is the CEO and founder AgencySavvy and WebSavvy, and co-author of the world’s best-selling book on Google Ads ‘The Ultimate Guide to Google Ads’.  His award-winning digital marketing agency WebSavvy is based in Melbourne, Australia. Since 2006, Mike and his team have been running campaigns for brands around the globe, and it’s now one of Australia’s largest independent Google agencies. Mike’s passion for the future of AI and Machine Learning has seen him invited to speak at over 100 events around the world, including Traffic & Conversion Summit, Baby Bathwater and Digital Summit Moscow. A teacher at heart, Mike is passionate about the AgencySavvy community and helping agency owners to ‘do’ Google Ads better and scale their agency.

Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a YouTube channel he started to help the world master the art of public speaking and communication. He coaches purpose driven entrepreneurs on how to master their message and share their ideas with the world.

Henry started his first biz in 1991 selling, installing, servicing and financing computers to large corporations. Since then he has founded a succession in firms in the e-commerce, finance, real estate and consumer products spaces. For much of the past decade, he has taken his experience as an entrepreneur and used it as a platform to coach other business owners and founders. In addition, in 2019, he self-published a 432-page book on everything you need to know about how to grow and manage your money. He also offers a 20-week course where I teach it to you, one-on-one. I also run curated masterminds on business and finance. In my infinite leisure, He also writes screenplays (for fun), play golf, travel (when not on lockdown), play Catan with my three boys.